Blog doesn't appear on WordPress.com Topics

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 27, 2011 at 1:00 pm

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  Good day,
  Today, for the second day in a row, I’ve tried to search for my blog through different topics/tags, which WordPress.com provides on the http://wordpress.com/#!/topics/ website. And did not succeed. After rechecking my tags and categories, still no luck.
  How does a blog end up on that page? Did I do something wrong? Because my blog is searchable for other readers. Thanks

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  airodyssey · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 3:07 am

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  Hi. Please verify the items here:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/global-tags/#missing-posts

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 5:58 am

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  HI, airodyseey,
  Yup, those are all good, and do not affect my blog. What else could it be?

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 6:01 am

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  Staff have said they’re not putting all posts on teh global tag pages. They’re “randomizing” it and playing with algorithms. Until they stop, I don’t know that there’s anything you can do.

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 9:31 am

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  So how else can people search for my blog?! :(((

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 10:25 am

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  Google. Hardly anyone actually uses the tag pages.

  I’ll show you how random it is. I’ve been using the category “Occupy Vancouver” daily for two weeks now. I don’t appear on http://wordpress.com/tag/occupy-vancouver at all, but I am the featured blog on http://wordpress.com/tag/occupyvancouver which is a tag I have NEVER used.

  That’s how bizarre this is. What makes me think there’s human interference is, all the left-wingers are on the “occupyvancouver” tag page and all the right-wingers are on the “occupy vancouver” tag page.

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 11:07 am

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  So, Google would discover sites by these tags and categories? Or just by name?
  Thanks for the info! :)

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 11:27 am

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  By name, Links from the Tag and Category pages of WordPress are “nofollow” links now, which means that Search Engines aren’t supposed to count them as a real link to your blog anyway.

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 11:31 am

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  Thanks.. it’s a bummer though.

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  raincoaster · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 12:14 pm

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  Ha, you should have seen what it did to my traffic. From 3600 readers a day to 600. BOOM overnight. Took almost six months for me to get an answer about why it had happened.

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  twilightreality · Member · Oct 28, 2011 at 12:19 pm

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  Woah! Wonder what happened then…